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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2004-1973 json

DiGi Web Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP GET request that contains a large number…

published 2004-04-27 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-1965

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.8%
EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

DiGi Web Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP GET request that contains a large number of / (slash) characters, which consumes resources when DiGi converts the slashes to \ (backslash) characters.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-24066)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

3.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-24066 DiGi WWW Server 1 - Remote Denial of Service dos, 2004-04-27
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10228 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • osvdb.org http://www.osvdb.org/5702 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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